For the eighth consecutive year, I've counted the number of games I finished in the last 12 months. The number has gone up, even as I played fewer games.

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I've been keeping count since 2006, the year I didn't just finish Suikoden V and Star Fox Command but also the likes of Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3, Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2 Episode One. That was one high-quality year of gaming!

My full list runs below, but, as always, I need to explain how this list works:

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I only list games I played on my own, outside of any shows like E3 where I may have tried a new game on a demo kiosk. All of the games you listed are games I either bought or was provided access to. I played most of them at home or during my commute.

I don't play old games very often, but even if I do on rare occasion return to an old game, I only list games that I either started or finally finished in a given year.

People justifiably get hung up on what I mean when I write that I "finished" a game. I basically mean that I got to the credits or storyline conclusion of a game. Not every game allows for that, of course. I don't think you can "finish" SimCity. Other games have so much content that I can access after I've reached the end credits that "finishing" the likes of a Papers, Please or Assassin's Creed IV has still left me with at least a dozen more hours to play in each game.

Among the games that I did not finish are games I played for probably less than an hour (Gran Turismo 6, for example) and those I have played for more than 50 (Fire Emblem Awakening). There are numerous 2013 game, from Gunpoint to Luigi's Mansion to Puppeteer, that I intend to finish in 2014.

This was the first year since I started doing this that I did not have a Wii game to list. (It'll come back in a way if I ever get around to trying Xenoblade: Chronicles and The Last Story), Facebook gaming is essentially dead to me. The biggest surprise to me is that my iOS gaming petered off. I don't think it is a coincidence that, in the same period of time, my 3DS gaming picked up.

Finally, a couple of embarrassing 2013 oversights: I never got around to even starting Metal Gear Rising and Mario & Luigi Dream Team, the latter of which is part of one of my favorite series ever. As much as I loved playing Skulls of the Shogun at PAX after PAX, I've yet to play it on my own. It's waiting for me on my iPad. I also really, really need to play DOTA 2 and/or League of Legends. I feel badly out of the loop.

UPDATE: Somehow I forgot to include The Last of Us when I initially published this. I've added it and corrected my math.

On with the list!

My 2013 Games Played/Finished List

(Games I started listed below. Finished games are bolded. Games not from 2013 are noted as such)